Indie Links Round-Up: Faces In The Crowd

Video games are still a relatively young medium, which is why New Media Rights are still a fuzzy issue – and why it’s big news that the music to a game got a Grammy nomination. Read about this and more in today’s Indie Links.

Teleglitch (TIGSource)
“Teleglitch is a top-down shooter set in a gloomy military research facility. The game reminds me of Doom in terms of theme and pacing, but has more of a survival horror bent to it, with scarce ammunition and high-damaging, fast-moving monsters. In a lot of ways, it feels like what I wanted Doom 3 to be – a mostly action-based game with less gimmicky horror elements.”

Ow, My Fourth Wall: Shadow of the Game (Rock, Paper, Scissors)
“Shadow Of The Gameisn’t an MMO. It’s an RPG with an MMO in it. A single-player game in which your character takes part in an MMO which is played within the game, but it’s not actually an MMO because it’s all single-player, and and RPG, except it’s really more of a visual novel… This is the work of indies DeRailGames, and is, we’re told, about the boundaries between online identities and those of something called ‘real life’.”

New Media Rights: You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Be An Indie Developer (Joystiq)
“Imagine you’re a game developer, working on an independent project for two years. You spend $10,000 of your own savings on assets, artists and sound designers, and finally you release the game for $0.99, expecting to break even, maybe, in a few years. Three months after launch, you get a letter from a lawyer yelling at you in all capital letters, alleging you’ve violated federal statutes and if you don’t take your game down immediately, you’ll be sued for everything you’re worth, and your friends and family are going down with you. What would you do?”